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Carpenter, Tamra

  • Carpenter, Tamra
  • Tami Carpenter
  • Staff, Faculty, Executive Committee
  • Role: DIMACS Associate Director
  • Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
  • Office: Room 430, CoRE Building
  • Contact Information:

    DIMACS
    Rutgers University
    96 Frelinghuysen Road
    Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018

    E-mail: tcar at dimacs.rutgers.edu
    Homepage: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~tcar/
    Phone: (848) 445-4631
    Fax: (732) 445-5932

    Office: 430 CoRE building on the Busch Campus
  • Organization: Rutgers University
  • Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, decision sciences, optimization.
  • Interests: Optimization and its applications, decision-making under uncertainty, education in computational thinking.

  • Associate Director for the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University.

  • Optimization and mathematical programming, in particular:

    • Telecommunication network design, equipment location, and resource allocation, including access network planning, optical network planning, handling uncertainty in network planning, and efficient routing in telecommunication networks.
    • Optimization models for emergency preparedness and response.
    • Earlier research focused on large-scale optimization, including interior-point methods, quadratic programming, and stochastic optimization.

  • My Hot List -- A few of the things that I've been involved with recently (in no particular order):

    Center for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn)
    DIMACS Special Focus on Hardness of Approximation
    DIMACS 20th Birthday Conference: Looking Back, Looking ForwardDIMACS/DyDAn Research Project on Sensor Management for Nuclear DetectionDyDAn Graduate Fellowships

    Emergency evacuation is a topic that is not on my hot list yet, but I'd like it to be. If you have suggestions on important computational or mathematical challenges that might offer an appropriate workshop topic, please drop me an email.

    • Telcordia Technologies/Bellcore, Applied Research (1992-2006)
      For most of my career, I was a researcher at Bellcore, which became Telcordia Technologies in 1999. My most recent position was as a Senior Scientist and Director of the Network Models & Algorithms Research Group. Here are a few Telcordia highlights.
    • Princeton University (1987-1992; 1999)
      I was a graduate student, teaching assistant, research assistant and visiting lecturer at Princeton University. [I'll add Princeton highlights someday.]
    • RCA/GE Corporation (1984-1987)
      My first job was as an Operations Research Analyst at RCA, which was bought by GE, hastening my return to graduate school.